The understanding that through this particular reading I find no common correlation to the events in Ferguson, MO; however, the diagnoses of social psychology as emphasized by Emma Higgins is strangely so me. I have utterly been educated and reevaluated myself through Emma Higgins’s The Social Psychology of Ferguson. As accentuated by Higgins, “Let’s first look at some of the ways prejudices are perpetuated and affect our behavior.” A common misinterpretation in situations that we claim to find bias upon such as the events that Higgins address in the case of Ferguson, MO. Nonetheless, the social diagnoses of social psychology that can display the bias correlation that ignites a world-class case upon society is strangely accurate; in terms,
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I would say that we as individuals, and myself, categorizes people with varies reasoning’s; such as, the subcategorizing social class to education and to individuals of outcasts and popularity. There’s just no proper evaluation of why such in-group/out-group bias occurs, but it definitely occurs to the reasons of personal bias of self-identifying one to be in this group and not the other—why one is ought to be in this group and another ought to reframe from joining such group because of having a common interest or goal that makes that group one an in or out …show more content…
Thus, as Higgins underlined, “While I have some understanding of why people behave the way they do, and have my own opinions about what behaviors are right and wrong, I hate seeing the country divided rather than united against the situational factors that underlie such events.” Coincidently, I could not agree more, but have doubt that such understanding of “why people behave the way they do” is tough to understand in the first place. Reasons being, like mentioned, not all individuals have the same common goal of understanding such situational factors to begin with. Some would take the stand and be in the in-group, so to speak, while others would strongly take the stand of being in the
I would say that we as individuals, and myself, categorizes people with varies reasoning’s; such as, the subcategorizing social class to education and to individuals of outcasts and popularity. There’s just no proper evaluation of why such in-group/out-group bias occurs, but it definitely occurs to the reasons of personal bias of self-identifying one to be in this group and not the other—why one is ought to be in this group and another ought to reframe from joining such group because of having a common interest or goal that makes that group one an in or out …show more content…
Thus, as Higgins underlined, “While I have some understanding of why people behave the way they do, and have my own opinions about what behaviors are right and wrong, I hate seeing the country divided rather than united against the situational factors that underlie such events.” Coincidently, I could not agree more, but have doubt that such understanding of “why people behave the way they do” is tough to understand in the first place. Reasons being, like mentioned, not all individuals have the same common goal of understanding such situational factors to begin with. Some would take the stand and be in the in-group, so to speak, while others would strongly take the stand of being in the